Presentation

A brief history

Founded as the ENSET Electricity Laboratory in 1975, renamed LÉSiR - Laboratoire d'Electricité, des Signaux et de Robotique - in 1984 when it joined the CNRS, then SATIE - Laboratoire des Systèmes et Applications des Technologies de l'Information et de l'Energie - in 2002, our laboratory is dedicated to research in Electrical Engineering in all its scientific and technological aspects. It is unique in that it brings together researchers in electronics, energy conversion and physics applied to electricity, and researchers in signal processing.

Over the years, SATIE has built its research on a network of academic expertise in the Ile-de-France and Brittany regions, thanks to the historic link between ENS Cachan (which became ENS Paris-Saclay in 2016) and ENS Rennes.

The SATIE lab is under supervision of : ENS Paris-Saclay, ENS Rennes, Paris-Saclay University, Cergy Paris University, Gustave Eiffel University, CNAM Paris and CNRS.

We currently have around 200 teacher-researchers, researchers, engineers, technicians, doctoral students, post-doctoral students and administrative staff.

Research topics and organisation 

Our research themes

• Development, characterisation and modelling of materials for electrical energy; Magnetic materials; Piezoelectric materials; Caloric materials;

• Power electronics integration; multi-criteria system integration; PCB burial; eco-design; piezoelectric energy recovery;

• EMC of power systems; Modelling and simulation methodology adapted to complex systems; Hybrid active filtering;

• Ageing and robustness of power components; Lifetime modeling of power modules; Extreme electrical conditions; Ageing of electro-chemical storage systems and fuel cell systems (PEMFC); Diagnosis and prognosis of component health;

• Design and real-time management of complex electrical systems; Reliability and resilience of large-scale Smart Grids; Buildings, Uses and Users; 

• Optimum design methodologies for electrical machines (parametric and topological); Real-time control and simulation of electromechanical conversion chains; Topologies of electro-mechanical conversion chains;

• Adequacy-Algorithms-Architectures-Usages; Embedded systems; Frugal systems;

• Data and Image Analysis; Computational Imaging; Learning; Uncertainties; Robust estimation; Deep networks;

• Multimodal NDT; Sensors; Bio-sensors; Instrumentation; Imaging

Our societal challenges

• Low-carbon mobility

• Sustainable energy transition  

• Health and well-being

• Restoration and conservation of material heritage 

• Safety and security

A structuration around two scientific departments and a research support centre